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• Shape shifters: the dramatic barn that’s a live-work space for two sculptors

  09-01-2022 11:00
  
  This fabulous industrial scale home and studio even has room for a forklift…The Matt Black Barn is a “forklift-friendly” live-work space belonging to the renowned British sculptors, Laura Ford and Andrew Sabin. It sits between the villages of Emsworth and Bosham, just north of Chichester harbour. “To the south are trees, a field or two and then the sea,” explains Sabin. “To the north, some fields and then the South Downs.” It is a world apart from their
  
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• Art historian discovers that £65 painting on his wall is work of Flemish master

  09-01-2022 09:00
  
  Picture of Isabella Clara Eugenia, Infanta of Spain, is likely to be by Sir Anthony van Dyck, finds Cortauld’s reportAs a leading art historian, Christopher Wright has uncovered several old master paintings in public and private collections over five decades. Now he has discovered that a copy of a painting by Sir Anthony van Dyck, which he bought for himself for £65 in 1970, may actually be an original by the 17th-century Flemish court painter to King Charles I.“I bought it fro
  
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